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Finding encouragement during wilderness seasons is essential for our spiritual growth. Drawing from Deuteronomy 2:7, we explore how God blesses the work of our hands, acknowledges our struggles, and provides for our needs even when circumstances suggest otherwise.
• God's blessings are connected to the work of our hands - requiring our active participation • The wilderness experience is not hidden from God - He knows exactly what you're going through • Personal testimony of blaming God before understanding His presence in difficult seasons • Self-isolation can prevent us from using the gifts God gave us to connect with others • Remembering God's faithfulness helps us move forward rather than circling the same mountain • The importance of speaking to your own soul and reminding yourself how far God has brought you
Lord, remind us that we are blessed people, not cursed. Show us that our work will produce blessings for our households and communities. Thank you that we are standing in victory even when walking through wilderness seasons. Amen.
Hello, all right, so this is for Faith Fuel Saturday and I just wanted to come in and remind you or encourage all of us who feel like we're going through a wilderness season right now. So I'm in Deuteronomy 2, and I'm just going to read verse 7. And this is the ESV version, and it says For the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows you're going through this great wilderness. These 40 years, the Lord, your God, has been with you. You have lacked nothing. I just want to remind you, as we are, some of us, going through different wilderness. You know, maybe you're just in a season where you're going through the things and you just need a little bit of encouragement. So that's my intention today is just to remind you, first of all, that the Lord, it says, has blessed you in all the work of your hands. And so, on the Thursday teaching this week I talked about specifically, I was in Deuteronomy 28, I believe, and I was talking about the blessings and speaking the blessings into your life. But sometimes we need to be reminded that we have no lack. We have what we need. It says in our hands and that might look like you know, you have the idea, or the Lord starts putting you in connection with the right people. You have the gifts and the talent, you have the things, you have access. He starts to give you access and blesses all the work of your hands, which means that we have to do work y'all. We can't just, like you know, on the head and not the tail and do all the things and not do the work that's required. It is conditional, as I was saying on Thursday. So that's one thing. The second part, though, is that, just for us to be reminded that he knows what we're going through and God is with us, that he knows what we're going through and God is with us, and I think, for me, when I was kind of younger in the faith, I would find that really hard to believe when I was going through really hard things or I saw people suffer, including myself. That you know, are you sure, are you really with me? Because I'm really suffering right now. Like you know, I used to ask the question where is God? I used to blame God for a lot of things, a lot of things that I was doing, you know, because we have free will, so a lot of things that I was doing, not being obedient. So here's one like not being obedient with my finances and then wondering why I was broke and then saying where God, you know God helped me pay my bills, right. Or I went through a season where I was having a lot of losses I lost three babies and I was really upset at God, like, where are you in this? Like why would you let? I mean, I was doing all of the things and yet his grace, I didn't realize then. I know now that even in my pain, he was with me and that he used my pain and my experiences, um, um, to help me, help other people who are going through these things. So, um, and, by the way, I was asking the Lord to use me and be a vessel. God be careful what you ask, right? So, um, so, so these these things were happening to me, uh, or I was having lack.
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Like you know, I am, for the most part, a loner. I spend a lot of time by myself. I just happen to be that kind of person. It's just like just me and Jesus. But I had to take down some of the walls that I had. I was building up these walls around people and so he was showing me. Also, I can't be of any use to him or the kingdom if I'm setting up these walls. And so he had put these gifts and talents in order for me to connect with people and I keep you know what. What use is that? What sense is that if I'm not actually using the gifts? So all those things that you know.
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Again, he's blessed me to do all the work of my hands and he knows that I'm going through this wilderness and the other part where it says these 40 years the Lord has been with you. You've lacked nothing, and sometimes, for me, I just need to be. I need to remind myself that he took me out of um, a situation. He blessed me, like you know, in such a way that he blessed me in such a way that there was no way that I can take credit for any of it. Like it is straight Abba, like it's straight God. I had nothing to do with it. Okay, um. But every now and then, I have to remind myself, my soul. I have to speak to my own soul and remind myself wait a minute, look at, look at how far God has brought us so, um, so the wilderness years.
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For those of y'all who don't know um on Facebook. The name of our prayer group come out of the wilderness is part of this came from this. I was in um, a period of time where the Lord was working on me, um, so that he could use me to help all of us, encourage us to come out of and it doesn't again. When you're going through these periods of maybe loss or drought, or when things aren't kind of flowing your way or going your way, that it's just a reminder that we don't also we don't get stuck, as word says, traveling the same mountain. A lot of us have wasted a lot of time doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So we have to be able to align with what God says concerning us that he's blessed all the work of our hands. He knows what we're going through, we've not lacked anything and then, with that, we build up our faith so that we can get up y'all dust off our hands and feet and keep moving forward.
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So that's what I wanted to share today, for Faith Fuel is taking us back again just to Deuteronomy 2, verse 7, to remind us, where it says again the Lord has blessed you in all the work of your hands. And so, lord, as you're releasing this word now over whoever is listening, whoever is under the sound of my voice, that you, first of all, you remind us, for those who are going through a season of lack right now, that you remind us that we are still blessed people, we are not cursed, and that because of the sacrifice of Jesus, because of that blood sacrifice, because we have the power of the Holy Ghost with us thank you, holy Spirit that we can do all things through Christ, who strengthened us. I ask that you will just revive our spirit, those who are feeling down or low today, lord God, that you'll just remind them of who you are and whose they are, and that we are truly a blessed people. That you will show them, lord, god, and that the work of their hands and anything that they produce will be a blessing, so much so that it overtakes them and their family, lord God. Whatever they produce, lord God, that it will be a blessing for their household, for generations to come, and they will overtake, so much so that they can bless their communities as well.
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So we're operating out of overflow, of blessings and no lack. I thank you, god, that we will not forget that you are a true, faithful God. You have never left us and we thank you for taking us from situation to situation, from door to door, taking us through this season, lord God, and for blessing and watching over us. We thank you for all of the amazing blessings to come and the breakthroughs. We thank you that we are standing in victory and we worship you, we honor you and we praise you. All these things, amen. I could pray for a long time, so I'm trying to pull myself back, but it lifts my spirit. I hope it does for you when you're in a season when you're like, yeah, things aren't like, things don't look like I thought they would, and just coming back into his word and reminding you of what God actually says, knowing that he has never left us. Thank you, holy Spirit, us of, of of your word, amen. All right y'all. So that's it for faith fuel. I will see y'all next week. Take care.
